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Jalapeño

Capsicum annuum ‘Jalapeño’Also called jalapeno and jalapeno pepper

A jalapeño is a chili pepper whose fruit cooks use as a vegetable. It can be eaten raw, pickled, smoked, sautéed, deep-fried, stuffed, or used as a garnish, and it pairs with cheese. Jalapeños are sold fresh or canned.

  • Plant-based
  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category
Vegetables
Variety of
Chili pepper
Part used
Fruit
Family
Solanaceae
Cooked most in
The Americas
Top country
United States
Jalapeño, whole

Photo: Conrads.wikipedia.account · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use jalapeño

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Deep fry
  • Garnish
  • Pickle
  • Raw
  • Saute
  • Smoke
  • Stuff

Preparing it

Hollow out fresh peppers before stuffing them.

Goes well with

Shopping

Choosing and storing jalapeño

Choosing a good one

Brown corking lines correlate with greater heat, though heat varies between peppers.

Keeping it

  • Fridge · whole
Sold as
Canned, Fresh

Nutrition

What 100 g of jalapeño holds

Per 100 g, raw. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 12%Fat 5%Carbohydrate 84%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of jalapeño, raw
Energy29 kcal · 119 kJ
Protein0.91 g
Fat0.37 g
of which saturated0.09 g
Carbohydrate6.5 g
of which sugars4.1 g
Fibre2.8 g
Sodium3 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of jalapeño, raw: minerals and vitamins
Potassium248 mg
Calcium12 mg
Iron0.25 mg
Magnesium15 mg
Zinc0.14 mg
Vitamin C119 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)54 µg
Folate27 µg
Canned

Protein 14%Fat 14%Carbohydrate 72%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of jalapeño, canned
Energy27 kcal · 113 kJ
Protein0.92 g
Fat0.94 g
of which saturated0.1 g
Carbohydrate4.7 g
of which sugars2.1 g
Fibre2.6 g
Sodium1,671 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of jalapeño, canned: minerals and vitamins
Potassium193 mg
Calcium23 mg
Iron1.9 mg
Magnesium15 mg
Zinc0.34 mg
Vitamin C10 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)85 µg
Folate14 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (foods 168576, 170080), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

On the table

Dishes made with jalapeño

2 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Carthay Signature Fried Biscuits

    United States

  • Jalapeño peppers stuffed with cheese

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include jalapeño.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: jalapeño in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Family

Related forms

A kind of
chili pepper
A variety of
chili pepper

Around the world

What jalapeño is called

Names in 57 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    chile jalapeño · aji japeno · ají japeno · aji japeño

  • French

    Piment jalapeño · Piment Jalapeno · Jalapeño

  • Italian

    jalapeño

  • Portuguese

    jalapeño · Pimenta-japalenho · Jalapenho · Pimenta-jalapenho

  • German

    Jalapeño · Alopino · Jalapena · Jalapeno

  • Dutch

    Jalapeño · Jalapeno · Jalapa peper

  • Greek

    Χαλαπένιο

  • Turkish

    Jalapeño · Jalapeno

  • Russian

    халапеньо · ялапен

  • Polish

    Jalapeño · Jalapeno

  • Arabic

    هالبينو

  • Persian

    هالاپینیو · هلیپینو

Show all 57 languages

  • Afrikaans

    Jalapeño

  • Albanian

    Capsicum annuum ‘Jalapeño’

  • Armenian

    հալապենո

  • Asturian

    Capsicum annuum ‘Jalapeño’

  • Azerbaijani

    Xalapeno

  • Bulgarian

    Халапеньо

  • Catalan

    Bitxo jalapeño

  • Cebuano

    Capsicum annuum ‘Jalapeño’

  • Chinese

    墨西哥辣椒 · 哈拉皮紐辣椒

  • Czech

    jalapeño · paprička jalapeño

  • Danish

    Jalapeño · Jalapeños · Jalapeno · Jalapenos

  • Egyptian Arabic

    هالبينو

  • Esperanto

    ĥalapenjokapsiko

  • Estonian

    jalapeño · 'Jalapeño'

  • Filipino

    Jalapeño

  • Finnish

    jalapeño · Jalapeno · Jalopeno

  • Galician

    Pemento xalapeño · Xalapeño

  • Hebrew

    חלפניו

  • Hindi

    हालापेन्यो

  • Hungarian

    Jalapeño

  • Indonesian

    Jalapeño · jalapeno

  • Irish

    Capsicum annuum ‘Jalapeño’

  • Japanese

    ハラペーニョ

  • Javanese

    Jalapéño

  • Kannada

    ಹಾಲಪೇನ್ಯೊ

  • Korean

    할라페뇨

  • Latin

    Capsicum Xalapense

  • Macedonian

    халапењо · халапењо-пиперка · пиперка халапењо

  • Malay

    Cili Xalapa

  • Malayalam

    ഹലപീനൊ · Jalapeño · ഹലാപീനൊ

  • nah

    Chīlchōtl

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    jalapeño · Jalapeno

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    jalapeño

  • nup

    Jalapeño

  • Romanian

    jalapeño

  • Serbian

    Халапењо · Халапењо паприка · Халапењо папричица

  • Simplified Chinese

    墨西哥辣椒

  • Slovak

    Paprička jalapeño

  • Slovenian

    jalapeño

  • Swedish

    jalapeño · Jalapeno

  • Tatar

    халапинҗә

  • Thai

    ฆาลาเปญโญ · กัวเรสเมญโญ

  • Traditional Chinese

    墨西哥辣椒

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    墨西哥辣椒

  • Ukrainian

    халапеньйо

  • Venetian

    jalapeño

  • Vietnamese

    Capsicum annuum ‘Jalapeño’

  • Waray

    Capsicum annuum ‘Jalapeño’

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q504133

Photos

Photo: Conrads.wikipedia.account · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons